"Harry Potter" author Rowling has been absent from social media for several days, after erroneously calling female Olympic boxer Khelif a "man."

Author J.K. Rowling has fallen silent on her usually busy X (formerly Twitter) feed, after Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif filed a legal complaint in France for alleged cyber harassment over statements regarding her gender.

On August 9, lawyers for Khelif filed a lawsuit with a special unit of the public prosecutor’s office in Paris, stemming from false statements that spread online about her gender after the Algerian boxer defeated Italy’s Angela Carini in her first fight of the 2024 Olympic Games. Carini pulled out 46 seconds into the bout and told reporters afterwards that she had “never felt a punch like this.”

  • pooEnglish
    31•3 months ago

    Wait how is this blatant lie allowed to remain published online? I thought the WSJ had at least some credibility?

    • @ameancowEnglish
      9•3 months ago

      how is this blatant lie allowed to remain published online?

      A lot of people still think there’s consequence or rules or regulations on what publications can say or do. We abolished those laws a long time ago.

    • @Doomsider
      0•3 months ago

      No modern US media has any credibility anymore. They are owned by a handful of wealthy people who don’t give a shit about truth or journalistic integrity.